This makes it unlikely that anyone would confuse the two. Well, as for Tails, frame $56 is significantly different from his standing sprite, which is nearly unchanged from the one in Sonic 2. So how come the other characters don't suffer from this kind of mix-up? Most of the animation was made from these sheets but there were some grabs from the proto too. This is an amazing resource and saved me hours of work when making the NYE Flash animation that played after the Sonic 1 prototype. Fun Fact: The 'Sliding' pose was actually used in a Sonic 3 Prototype, where Sonic used his 1/CD sprites(S3 Pallet and prototype-exclusive sprites), and the angel island intro was Sonic snow()boarding to the island.(The same prototype where Knux looks weird) Can read about the prototype here. Much later, someone naïvely takes the first sprite in this sheet, blows the pixels up to the size of Legos, and uses them to win an argument on the Internet. Thanks to everyone who's contributed to these sheets. Someone comes along to make a rudimentary sprite rip, finds frame $56 long before reaching frame $BA, so they push it to the top of their sprite sheet. Meanwhile, as we recently saw, the actual standing pose is all the way over at mapping frame $BA.

Well, as I pointed out back then, the standing rotation sprites take up mapping frames $55 through $5B. Okay, but how did this relatively obscure sprite end up in the comparison? This sprite just happens to be slightly different from the regular standing sprite, namely with respect to Sonic's left shoe, his mouth, and his gaze, which does indeed look a bit cross-eyed. Happy Birthday (6/15) To Kyle Hebert English VA for Big the Cat in sonic Frontiers and other sonic games since 2010.

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